Rant

[Nathan England]

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My problem lately has been less and less tarballs and more and more
rpms...
After digging a little longer I'll eventually find the tarball. But this
is usually only with programs that do not supply the source code. Which
is usually what I'm after anyway, but sometimes I just can't find the
tarballs.  Luckily slack has limited rpm features, so I can force
something into it. But I agree, sometimes it worries me that people will
stop releasing tarballs or source.  Instead only releasing rpm, and
srpm.  Which really screws me.  I don't pay a whole lot of attention to
debian, but I haven't been seeing as much debian packaging either. =20

nathan

On Sun, 2001-10-07 at 13:04, Thomas Mondoshawan Tate wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 12:25:20PM -0700, Rick Rosinski wrote:
> > Over time, I have noticed (as did everybody else, no doubt) that when=20
> > checking for compatibility / requirements for most of the software out =
there=20
> > (Notably, StarOffice), they support RedHat, SuSE, Debian, Mandrake, and=
 even=20
> > YellowDog, and of course, Solaris.  But they do not support Slackware, =
even=20
> > though they provide a tarball binary (so it isn't because of any packag=
e=20
> > management).  This really irritates me, and I worry about future releas=
es of=20
> > my programs will no longer work on a Slackware system.  I don't want to=
 have=20
> > to change to one of the above distributions just because of some major=20
> > oversight of one of the first - and ongoing - distributions of Linux.
> >=20
> > Any comments, rants, verifications, discredits, etc.?
>=20
> Why would future revisions of their programs not work under Slackware? If
> they didn't work under slackware, they wouldn't work under any other Linu=
x
> system in existance. I say this because Slackware is about as close as yo=
u
> can get to a source-built Linux system -- something that RedHat and the r=
est
> _must_ be based on to make any upgrades to the core libraries, etc.
>=20
> --=20
> Thomas "Mondoshawan" Tate
> phoenix@psy.ed.asu.edu
> http://tank.dyndns.org

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"I guess I'll never forget her. And maybe I don't want to. Her spirit
was wild, like a wild monkey. Her beauty was like a beautiful horse
being ridden by a wild monkey. I forget her other qualities."
		--Jack Handley, The New Mexican
			1988

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